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Bloom salon5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Jana and Chelsey love to serve others, helping them to not only feel beautiful on the outside but also feel loved on the inside. Listening to what the clients have to say while adding their creative suggestions allows them to fully execute incredible hair services. The sisters, along with the other well-educated stylists, value each other and every individual client. When clients come to an appointment at Bloom, they know that heart and soul had been poured into the business. They have plans to add a few more stylists for the continual growth and will be offering their space to host salon education and other events in the upcoming years.īloom provides a relaxing, feel-good salon for clients and other hair designers that are ready to take on their own independent business within a supportive team atmosphere. Bloom continues to grow substantially through each new year, and through each change they have endured. ![]() This March marks 9 years for Jana and Chelsey’s vision. During the 8th year of business they relocated yet again, settling into a perfect space they feel will be the salon’s forever home. Nearly 5 years later, those dreams grew into bigger dreams and they relocated into a bigger salon space, doubling their team of stylists. After spending several months working in a home garage, the sisters created their business plan, found a quaint little location in Canton, Ga and began plowing through the process to make their dream come true. Chelsey Wilkes and Jana Tillman had a vision - a vision to open a salon that radiates relaxation, creativity and positivity. After all -“It is chocolate.Bloom is the outcome of two sisters following their dreams. “We wanted to be special, and delicious, but playful.” says Vega. And some options are just plain fun, like “cake for breakfast:” A chocolate chip pancake cake with vanilla ice cream and chocolate maple sauce. There are more traditional uses, too, including churros with Mexican-spiced chocolate dipping sauce. Mignardises like a cacao pate de fruit using the husk of the cacao bean, and roasted vegetable hash with cocoa nib basil pesto, demonstrate the many possible uses for chocolate. With that kitchen, Bloom’s menu includes more elaborate pastry technique than the menu at the cafe (a second location of which is open next door to Bloom, serving more ‘smores and hot chocolate to-go). By contrast, the giant new factory is a playground, including a sizable commissary kitchen space for Vega and her team in the basement. Like the rest of the Dandelion crew, Vega has been somewhat cramped at the old Valencia Street Dandelion space, which lacked a real kitchen. “I think that’s what we built this place for.” ![]() Preparing for Bloom, Vega and her team travelled to tea houses in England and Japan, returning inspired, but with a more casual experience in mind.Įventually, Vega will offer a longer, eight-course tasting menu at Bloom called “Tree to bar.” Pair that with a chocolate class, also offered at the factory, and you’ve got the ultimate day in chocolate, Vega says. “It’s kind of like America’s answer to Angelina in Paris,” Dandelion Chocolate co-founder Todd Masonis said of Bloom, referencing the refined French destination with legendary hot chocolate. ![]() Then, on Tuesday, May 14, Bloom opens for its a full suite of options: A breakfast menu including savory items made with elements of chocolate, and in the afternoon, a choice of the three course chocolate tea menu or a three course afternoon ice cream tasting menu (including a house-made “It’s-It”). But don’t expect cucumber sandwiches here: Tea at Bloom entails a three course chocolate tasting menu, served with a pot of tea or hot chocolate while overlooking the new, state-of-the art Dandelion factory floor, where chocolate is transformed from otherworldly cacao pods into neatly wrapped bars.ĭandelion pastry chef Lisa Vega’s first tea menu will be served this Sunday, May 12, just in time for Mother’s Day. It’s nearly teatime at Bloom, an elegantly appointed salon inside Dandelion Chocolate’s shiny new Mission District factory. ![]()
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